The Winter That Devastated an Army: Napoleon's Russian Invasion

Napoleon marched 600,000 men into Russia — history's worst logistics investment. How many marched back? The ledger knew. This is animated history through the transaction lens: the 1812 campaign as a balance sheet — what the Grande Armée cost, what it bought, and the one column nobody thought to fill in. History explained as arithmetic: the muster rolls counted every boot and every horse; the winter was not consulted. The Reluctant Philosopher provides the history education; the snow provides the audit. ⏱ Chapters: 00:00 600,000 Names — The Muster Roll 00:34 Nobody Counted the Winter 00:55 The Enemy That Won't Fight 01:28 The Plan Was No Plan 01:46 Borodino — The Bloodiest Day 02:23 Moscow — The Prize Is a Trap 03:17 Five Weeks in the Ashes 04:11 The Answer Was Silence 04:46 October 19 — The Retreat Begins 05:19 Back Down the Burned Road 06:00 The Winter Enters the Ledger 06:27 The Horses Go First 07:01 The Smallest Enemy — Typhus 07:45 Cornered at the Berezina 08:23 One Man Disobeyed 10:30 The Bridge Held by Bodies 11:32 Berezina Becomes a Word 11:52 The Final Tally 12:34 The Emperor Leaves First 13:11 Bulletin 29 — His Health Is Fine 13:42 The Last Man Out of Russia 14:18 What Counts as Coming Home 14:53 Minard's Map — One Shrinking Line 15:30 The Column Nobody Filled In 16:00 Epilogue — See You Next Time New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 19:00 UTC — subscribe, and the algorithm can stop guessing whether you can be trusted with numbers. See you next time. #AnimatedHistory #HistoryExplained #HistoryComedy